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J.K. Rowling announced at the annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House Lawn on Sunday that she foresees writing more Harry Potter books,
saying, "I'm quite sure in the not-too-distant future I will bring out
another book." But wait! Don't start getting too riled up yet, or
you'll miss the catch: Rowling then added, "maybe in ten years." [MTV]

Okay, commence riling up: after a decade, Scholastic is dusting off the Baby-Sitters Club series. Last week, they released the new prequel, The Summer Before,
about how Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia and Stacey formed the only club of
middle school girls to last 138 books without getting all Mean Girls
on each other. Scholastic will also reprint the series with a more
modern twist—VHS become DVDs, Walkmen become iPods, and Stacey's unruly
perm becomes a modern (and vague) "expensive haircut." [Washington Post]

George Carlin's widow Sally Wade will release a collection of the iconic comedian's notes, letters and postcards next year, entitled The Permanent Courtship of Sally Wade. We can't wait to see if he ever managed to fit all "seven words you can't say on TV" into a love letter to his missus. [AP]

On Wednesday, The Neiman Journalism Lab reported that young people are more likely to choose their reading material based on word of mouth
and recommendations from social networking sites than from traditional book
reviews and bestseller lists. Or, you know, by which movie adaptation
has the most shirtless Taylor Lautner. [Neiman Journalism Lab]